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- Buying Green Homes - Making Homes Green - Green Building Materials f…Updated: Sun Jul 6 01:48:35 2008
Building green homes by using sustainably harvested products. Descriptions of green building materials. Eco-friendly living in green homes. About installing solar power, finding salvaged lumber and… - Mortgage Broker Answers to Your Interview QuestionsUpdated: Sat Jul 5 23:35:59 2008
How to tell if the answers your mortgage broker gives you at an interview are the answers a smart borrower would want to hear. The types of responses that are satisfactory to home buyers when inter… - Right Answers to Your Agent Interview QuestionsUpdated: Sat Jul 5 23:32:51 2008
Answers to interview questions you ask your real estate agent. Top 10 answers to most commonly asked questions of real estate agents. How to tell if your agent is a good fit for you based on the an… - Bad Home Inspector - Recognizing Bad Home Inspectors - Avoiding Bad …Updated: Sat Jul 5 23:19:27 2008
How to avoid hiring a bad home inspector. How to recognize clueless home inspectors. How to determine if your home inspector is qualified and credentialed. Questions to ask a home inspector. How mu… - How Foreclosures Work - How does Buying Foreclosures Work?Updated: Sat Jul 5 23:17:55 2008
All about foreclosures, the risks and the profits. Whether you're an investor or first-time home buyer,foreclosures can be a great deal, but not without substantial risk and work. Here's how to pro… - Open Houses - How to Hold Successful Open Houses - Selling a House f…Updated: Sat Jul 5 23:16:55 2008
Selling houses at an open house. Here's how to host a successful open house and sell that house. Not all homes are candidates for holding open and why… - Open House - Preparing for Open House - Open House PreparationUpdated: Sat Jul 5 23:16:24 2008
Getting ready for an open house. Strategy for open house preparation, guidelines and tips to ensure a successful open house… - Home Staging - Staging a House - Art of Home StagingUpdated: Sat Jul 5 23:12:49 2008
Beyond decorating and cleaning, home staging is about illusions. Staging makes your house look bigger, brighter, cleaner, warmer, more loving, and it makes home buyers want to buy it… - Selling a House - How to Prepare Your House for SaleUpdated: Sat Jul 5 23:02:48 2008
Do you know why identical homes don't sell at identical sales prices -- why some houses sell for more money even though their square footage is the same? Learn what you can do to boost your bottom … - Home Inspection Checklist - General Home Inspection Checklist ItemsUpdated: Sat Jul 5 23:01:31 2008
Home inspection checklist items to look for when getting a home inspection. How to tell if your home inspector checked the essentials. Major and minor repair concerns… - Home Buying and Selling Videos with Elizabeth WeintraubUpdated: Sat Jul 5 22:51:18 2008
List and descriptions of home buying and selling videos with Elizabeth Weintraub. Fast-paced real estate advice by Weintraub on video. Got 90 seconds? Watch Weintraub's videos… - Finding the Right Home - How to Find the Right HomeUpdated: Sat Jul 5 14:37:06 2008
You can cut down on the red tape and save a lot of time if you stop to figure out what you might want to buy before searching for a home. Here are all the questions you need to answer upfront (and … - Book Review of How to Buy Your First Home - Home Buying Book Review …Created: Sat Jul 5 00:16:52 2008
Book review of How to Buy Your First Home, Expert Advice from an Attorney -- geared toward first-time home buyers -- written by Diana Brodman Summers… - Top 10 Tips for Writing Purchase OffersUpdated: Sat Jul 5 00:11:32 2008
Guide to writing offers to purchase real estate… - Top 3 Lies Told By Real Estate Agents - Dishonest Real Estate Agents…Updated: Thu Jul 3 17:37:23 2008
Is your real estate agent lying to you? How to tell if your agent is dishonest or an imposter. Ways to find out the truth about your real estate agent… - Selling Mistakes - Home Selling Mistakes - Home Sellers' Biggest Mis…Updated: Mon Jun 30 16:02:55 2008
Common home selling mistakes sellers make and how to avoid them. Overcoming mistakes in the home selling process. How much selling mistakes cost sellers and why home sellers make mistakes… - Top 10 Ways to Lose Your HomeUpdated: Mon Jun 30 14:15:13 2008
How to lose your home and quickly go into foreclosure. Top home buying and home financing mistakes that make buyers lose their homes… - Top 10 Gifts for First-Time Home Buyers - Holiday Gift Ideas for Hom…Updated: Sun Jun 29 22:40:01 2008
Looking for that special gift for a first-time home buyer? Here are gift ideas designed especially for first-time home buyers. Also, holiday gift ideas for home buyers… - Home Buying Path - Path to Buying a Home - Home Buying ProcessUpdated: Sat Jun 28 23:13:35 2008
A to Z home buying path, 18 simple steps for first-time home buyers, from hiring an agent to closing. Complete path to buying a home in easy-to-understand terms… - Home Buying Guide to Getting Started - Guide to Home Buying Step-by-…Updated: Sat Jun 28 22:31:01 2008
Complete A to Z guide to buying a home. From figuring out what you need versus what you want, to finding an agent, cleaning up credit, finding a lender and locating that perfect home to home inspec… - Who Profits From Short Sales - Benefits to Short Sale Sellers - Pros…Updated: Fri Jun 27 23:12:45 2008
Who wins on a short sale? Do sellers benefit from selling homes on short sales? Who profits from short sales? Are short sales better than foreclosures for a seller?… - Short Sales Affect Credit - Impact of Short Sales on Credit Reports …Updated: Fri Jun 27 14:43:50 2008
The affect of foreclosures and short sales on credit reports and FICO scores. Which is better to see on a credit report - a foreclosure or a short sale? How soon after foreclosure or short sale can… - Will a Short Sale Ruin Credit? - How Credit is Affected by Short Sal…Updated: Fri Jun 27 14:37:16 2008
Will a short sale ruin your credit rating? What is better: a short sale or a foreclosure? Length of time before a home owner can buy another home after a short sale or foreclosure… - Home Prices Per Square Foot - The Per Square Foot Cost for Real Esta…Updated: Thu Jun 26 04:26:52 2008
Figuring the price per square foot for real estate. How to value homes in any given area by the price per square foot, including average and median square foot market values… - First-time Home Buyers - Tips for First-Time Home Buyers - How to Bu…Updated: Thu Jun 26 00:05:07 2008
Buying a home for the first time can be overwhelming for many first-time home buyers because few home buyers know where or how to begin the search to buy a home. The first home buying step should b… - Overpriced Listings - Why Real Estate Agents Take Overpriced ListingsUpdated: Wed Jun 25 23:56:24 2008
Reasons why real estate agents write and accept overpriced listings. If a home is priced too high, it won't sell, so why would an agent take a listing that won't sell? Seems stupid. Well, the reaso… - Lease Options - How to Do a Lease Option or Lease Purchase SaleUpdated: Wed Jun 25 23:53:47 2008
Difference between lease options and lease purchase sales. Benefits to home buyers to do a lease option. Understanding lease options… - Paying Cash to Buy a Home - Advantages to Home Buying With All CashUpdated: Tue Jun 24 22:32:37 2008
Advantages and benefits to paying cash for a home. Ways to beat out other non-cash offers. Why a home seller prefers cash… - Why Overpriced Homes Are Worth a Second Look - Looking Twice at Over…Updated: Sun Jun 22 21:42:48 2008
When other buyers thumb noses at dated inventory, savvy home buyers can profit by considering homes that have been on the market longer than 30 days. When a home doesn't sell, it's not always a cas… - Foreclosure and Short Sale Taxes - Taxes Foreclosure and Short Sale …Updated: Sat Jun 21 13:49:41 2008
Home sellers' tax obligations on foreclosures and short sales. Distressed sale tax consequences. Sellers might owe taxes even when taking a loss and letting homes go into foreclosure or selling on … - Buy and Bail - Buying a New Home to Bail on the Old - Why Buy and Ba…Created: Thu Jun 19 00:54:26 2008
Buy and bail is a phrase used to describe how some home owners buy a new home and then bail (go into foreclosure) on the former home. Is buy and bail against the law?… - Find Down Payment - Where to Find a Down Payment to Buy a Home - Dow…Updated: Thu Jun 19 00:26:25 2008
How to get a down payment, apart from holding up a liquor store. Legal ways to find the cash to put down on a home. How much is required for a down payment? How much do you need to put down? If you… - The Nehemiah Program and FHA - Nehemiah Down Payment AssistanceCreated: Thu Jun 19 00:16:53 2008
Using the Nehemiah program gives the buyer a down payment and closing costs -- up to 6% of the sales price -- when used in conjunction with an FHA loan. While Nehemiah marries perfectly with FHA, o… - Biography of Catherine CoyCreated: Tue Jun 17 21:41:29 2008
Biography of mortgage broker Catherine Coy… - East Sacramento HomesUpdated: Tue Jun 17 02:03:30 2008
Photo gallery of unique homes in East Sacramento, from its high-end price ranges of homes in McKinley Park and the Fabulous 40s to the relatively more modest homes priced at half a million. Brought… - Land Park Homes in SacramentoUpdated: Tue Jun 17 02:00:23 2008
Unique homes in Land Park, Sacramento. Architecturally delightful homes from the 1900s through the 1940s. Land Park is located within a dozen blocks of downtown / Midtown Sacramento. It's a wonderf… - Best Time To Buy a Home - When is the Best Time to Buy a Home? - The…Updated: Mon Jun 16 21:43:30 2008
If you could pick any day of the year to buy a home, which day is best? Under what conditions are sellers most likely to sign a low offer? On which days can you get the best deal of the year? How … - Before You Sign a Buyer Broker Agreement - Exclusive Buyer Broker Co…Updated: Thu Jun 12 02:32:57 2008
Exclusive buyer broker contract elements. Before signing a buyer broker agreement with a real estate agent, here are the four most important components of the contract… - The Worst Day of the Year to Buy a Home - What is the Worst Day for …Updated: Wed Jun 11 04:12:28 2008
The worst day of the year for home buying and reasons you might want to avoid it. Pick any other day of the year to close on your home but this day… - Title Insurance Policies - Do You Need a Title Insurance Policy? - W…Updated: Mon Jun 9 19:04:15 2008
Title insurance policies as they pertain to real estate: owners and lenders title policies, terms of coverage, liability and protection. Title commitments and preliminary title reports prior to iss… - Tenants in Common - What is Tenants in Common?Updated: Mon Jun 9 19:01:58 2008
What it means to hold title as Tenants in Common. Property deeds that show title as tenants in common. Rights of owners and possession. How to hold title as tenants in common… - Quitclaim Deed Definition - What is a Quitclaim Deed?Updated: Mon Jun 9 19:00:08 2008
Definition of quitclaim deed as it pertains to real estate and why it is so confusing to buyers and sellers… - Property Deeds - Warranty, Grant, Quitclaim - Property Deeds to Tran…Updated: Mon Jun 9 18:58:49 2008
Real property deeds are used to transfer title. What are Warranty Deeds, Grant Deeds and Quitclaim Deeds. What makes them valid? Do they need to be notarized? Legal instruments used to transfer tit…